News Briefs 03-05-2012

Minnesota here I come!

• The Voynich manuscript was discovered in 1912. Let's celebrate 100 years of cluelessness.
• Cosmic Noms: Black hole caught eating a star.
• Planets are for N00bs! Amateur astronomers scour the skies to catch a glimpse of spy satellites.
• At last! Binnall of America's Season 7 begins --with its traditional premiere guest, parapolitical expert extraordinaire Jim Marrs
• The doctors who worked so frantically the day JFK was assassinated are growing old and dying --blame the lone reaper.
• How to hide secrets in a porn video the Al Qaeda way --and no, I don't mean that old shoe box you think nobody has found in your closet.
• California treasure hunter claims he's found Osama's body. Of all the mysteries the oceans keep hidden under their waters...
• Glass pyramids submerged in the Bermuda Triangle? Probably built by an Atlantean Liberace.
• 17 'lost' cities that you can still visit --if you don't get lost yourself, that is.
• Results may vary: Woman who claimed to only eat light found starved to death.
• If you want to stop the mental health industry from medicalizing problems that aren't medical, join Occupy the APA next Saturday.
• Is Nessie a monster or a ghost? Now that would make an interesting script for Ghostbusters 3.
• If you think Tyrannosaurs were scary, imagine the dino-fleas that sucked them dry of blood.
• Muggles rejoice: Harry Potter inspires device that literally spells out what blood type you are.
• "A tiger? In Africa Ohio?": More tigers in the US backyards than in wild globally.
• Red pill of the day: Missiles could be stationed on rooftops during London Olympics. It could make for a rather innovative method to light the cauldron --just sayin'...

Thanks to Rick & Susan.

Quote of the Day:

"The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely. "

~Charles Fort.